pyvideo status: February 15th, 2014

, Will Kahn-Greene | share this (mastodon)
Note: This is an old post in a blog with a lot of posts over a long span of time. The world has changed, technologies have changed, and I've changed. It's likely this is out of date, the code doesn't work, the ideas haven't aged well, or the ideas were terrible to begin with. Let me know if you think this is something that needs updating.

What is pyvideo.org

pyvideo.org is an index of Python-related conference and user-group videos on the Internet. Saw a session you liked and want to share it? It's likely you can find it, watch it, and share it with pyvideo.org.

Status

Over the last year, a number of things have led to a tangled mess of tasks that need to be done that were blocked on other tasks that were complicated by the fact that I had half-done a bunch of things. I've been chipping away at various aspects of things, but most of them were blocked on me finishing infrastructure changes I started in November when we moved everything to Rackspace.

I finally got my local pyvideo environment working and a staging environment working. I finally sorted out my postgres issues, so I've got backups and restores working (yes--I test restores). I finally fixed all the problems with my deploy script so I can deploy when I want to and can do it reliably.

Now that I've got all that working, I pushed changes to the footer recognizing that Sheila and I are co-adminning (and have been for some time) and that Rackspace is graciously hosting pyvideo.

In the queue of things to do:

  • finish up some changes to richard and then update pyvideo to the latest richard

  • re-encode all the .flv files I have from blip.tv into something more HTML5-palatable (I could use help with this--my encoding-fu sucks)

  • fix other blip.tv metadata fallout--for example most of the PyGotham videos have terrible metadata (my fault)

  • continue working on process and tools to make pyvideo easier to contribute to

That about covers it for this status report.

Questions, comments, thoughts, etc--send me email or twart me at @PyvideoOrg or or @willcage.

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